Aneta Grzeszykowska

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Aneta Grzeszykowska's photographs and video use dark, probing humor to explore sexuality, feminism, and the construction (and violent erasure) of the self. Over the past two decades, Grzeszykowska has used performance, photography, sculpture, and video to investigate the multiplicities of the self, the history of feminism and the phenomenology of her respective mediums. Grzeszykowska’s art draws her into the arena of Donna Harraway’s woman-cyborg. In breaking with the old, outdated schema, faded frames and post-romantic, patriarchal phantasms, she retains an unpredictability and hybridity that lies beyond the confines of the dual-channel possibilities of identity, connecting that which is human with what is technical, the organic with the synthetic, male and female, alluring and repugnant, and, particularly in the case of her latest works, the artistic and the non-artistic.

Aneta Grzeszykowska's (b. 1974, Warsaw, Poland) work has been exhibited at Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE; Kunstforum tu Darmstad, Darmstad, DE; The Francisco Carolinum Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art, Linz, AT; Raster, Warsaw, PL; MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, PL; Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, US; Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, DE; Fotografiska Stockholm, Stockholm, SE; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH; Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL; Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, HU; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, MX; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US; among many others. Her work is included in several museum collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; Sammlung Verbund, Vienna; and many others. Grzeszykowska is represented by Raster Gallery and Lyles & King. She lives and works in Warsaw.